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The Parent Resource Library has many wonderful books on Gifted Education, Special Education, working and living with adolescents, learning styles for all students, parenting and teaching and so much more! The following is a partial list of books available for checkout in the Media Center at Kinard:

Acceleration Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners by Joyce Vantassel-Baaaska

Asperger Syndrome & Your Child: A Parents Guide by Michael Powers

The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action by Cathryn Berger Kaye

Curriculum Compacting: An Easy Start to Differentiating for High Potential Students by Sally Reis & Joseph Renzulli

Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome and Other Learning Deficits by Deirdre Lovecky

The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners by Carol Ann Thomlinson

Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Learners by Julia L. Roberts

A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne

Generation MySpace: Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence by Candice Kelsey

Getting Graphic! Using Graphic Novels to Promote Literacy with Preteens and Teens by Michele Gorman

The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook by Judy Galbraith and Jim Delisle

Helping Gifted Children Soar: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers by Carol Strip

How the Brain Learns by David Sousa

How to Differentiate Instructions in Mixed-Ability Classrooms by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Independent Study for Gifted Learners by Susan Johnsen and Krystal Goree

Keeping A Head in School: A Student’s Book About Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders by Mel Levine

Learning and Memory: The Brain in Action by Marilee Sprenger

Life in the Fast Brain by Karen Isaacson

Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression and Other Disorders by James Webb

Motivating Gifted Students by Del Siegle and D. Betsey McCoach

Multiple Intelligences and Student Achievement by Linda Campbell and Bruce Campbell

The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine

The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond by Donna Goldberg and Jenifer Zweibel

Perfectionism: What’s Bad About Being Too Good by Miriam Adderholdt-Elliott and Jan Goldberg

The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine

Promoting Social and Emotional Learning by Maurice Elias

Questioning Strategies for Teaching the Gifted by Elizabeth Shaunessy

Raisin’ Brains: Surviving My Smart Family by Karen Isaacson

Re-forming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child by Karen Rogers

Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning by Barbara Kerr and Sanford Cohn

Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness by Barbara Kerr

Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential by Rich Weinfeld

Smart Kids with School Problems: Things to Know and Ways to Help by Priscilla Vail

The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? By Maureen Neihart

Some of My Best Friends are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Preschool to High School by Judith Wynn Halsted

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids: How to Understand, Live With and Stick Up for Your Gifted Child by Sally Walker

Twice-Exceptional and Special Populations of Gifted Students by Susan Baum

Understanding Creativity by Jane Piirto

Understanding Learning: The How, The Why, The What by Ruby Payne

Using Media and Technology with Gifted Students by Del Siegle

The What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys; A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons by Lynda Madaras

The What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls; A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters by Lynda Madaras

When Gifted Kids Don’t Have all The Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs by Jim Delisle and Judy Galbraith